Verizon builds its cloud with AMD micro servers

By Dean Takahashi October 7, 2013

In a big victory for micro servers, Verizon is announcing today that it is selecting Advanced Micro Devices‘ SeaMicro servers to build out several data centers with thousands of energy-efficient servers. SeaMicro pioneered a category of servers with a sea of low power, simple computing cores, or brains. ​AMD acquired SeaMicro last year for $334 million, and the Verizon deal means that AMD is getting a big payoff from that strategy, said Andrew Feldman, corporate vice president and general manager of AMD’s server group and the founder of SeaMicro. In an interview with VentureBeat, Feldman said that Verizon had a vision for public cloud services that are more flexible and subject to much deeper control. He said he hopes the deal will be a sign of more good things to come for micro servers, which are the fastest-growing part of the server market. “They’re using our server infrastructure from soup to nuts,” Feldman said. “This is very exciting, and they immediately will become one of our largest customers.”

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